Tech Tipstag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2013:/efc/techtips//17342006-12-08T20:40:30ZMovable Type 4.31-enWe think we have automatic notification for new entries functional!tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2006:/efc/techtips//1734.621922006-12-08T20:39:55Z2006-12-08T20:40:30ZYahoo!...Amy West
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Gmail To-Dotag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2006:/efc/techtips//1734.546022006-09-29T20:50:04Z2006-09-29T20:53:06ZI've decided I can't live without Gmail, so I push my UMN account to a gmail account. I also don't like the way UMCAL deals with to-do lists - you can only see them in the web client when you...Amy West
I've decided I can't live without Gmail, so I push my UMN account to a gmail account. I also don't like the way UMCAL deals with to-do lists - you can only see them in the web client when you select the one day view. Plus, I always have my mail open, but only keep UMCAL up intermittently. So, I found a nifty little suggestion for using Gmail to keep todo lists. See http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1871095,00.asp So far, it's working nicely...]]>
Print.css for Libraries Web sitestag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2006:/efc/techtips//1734.539802006-09-25T15:11:50Z2006-09-25T15:13:30ZFor folks who didn't pick up on this - I certainly didn't for several months - the default web template for VIS-compliant Libraries web pages sets the CSS media attribute to "screen". The result is that printed versions of the...Amy West
For folks who didn't pick up on this - I certainly didn't for several months - the default web template for VIS-compliant Libraries web pages sets the CSS media attribute to "screen". The result is that printed versions of the web pages are a mess. You can change it to "all" and then you can print what you see on screen, but for printing purposes you may not want *everything* that you see onscreen.

One solution is to create a print.css. Make it the last CSS you declare in the header and you generate consistent print versions of web pages. The one downside is that if you want a picture of your pages with all the images, but you've excluded images from the print.css, you'll have to use an image capture program. To see the print.css I made for GPL, go to http://govpubs.lib.umn.edu/my-elements/print.css.

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Eudora: Shorter Headerstag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2005:/efc/techtips//1734.208812005-05-02T15:32:40Z2005-11-28T19:08:41ZThere was a great article about using email professionally in a recent copy of UMNnews. I highly recommend it for some good ideas about email etiquette in our environment. Here's a tip that makes it easier to forward politely for...Eric Celeste
There was a great article about using email professionally in a recent copy of UMNnews. I highly recommend it for some good ideas about email etiquette in our environment.

Here's a tip that makes it easier to forward politely for those of you using fairly recent versions of Eudora. Eudora tends to include a lot of "headers" in forwarded messages that are distracting and unnecessary. To change Eudora's behavior so that it will only include a minimal set of headers on forwarded messages, read on.

Click on this link to generate a message in Eudora. While in Eudora, hold down your ALT key and click on the "x-eudora" line in that message. A window will appear asking you to click OK. Go ahead and click OK.

You may not see a change of behavior until you quit and restart Eudora, but after that all the extra headers in forwarded messages should be gone. Note that if you want to see some of these headers on messages you receive you can click on the aptly named "Blah, Blah, Blah" button (this is especially useful if you wish to report a message as spam).

Read the article in UMNnews for many other ideas on how to make your messages more concise and effective whether or not you use Eudora.

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An apology to those of you who got caught by the mangled email versions of this tip. Something in our list serving software changed the message enough to make the fancy Eudora trick the tip relied on unworkable. I hope the link version above does the trick for you. Don't forget, early version of Eudora will not be able to manage this. Good luck!]]>
UMCal: Showing Departments with Namestag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2005:/efc/techtips//1734.208802005-04-25T15:25:57Z2005-11-28T19:02:02ZHave you ever had trouble telling people apart in UMCal? Try looking up Karen Williams some time, there's more than one person with that name here at the U! If you are not seeing people's departmental information as well as...Eric Celeste
Have you ever had trouble telling people apart in UMCal? Try looking up
Karen Williams some time, there's more than one person with that name here
at the U! If you are not seeing people's departmental information as well as
their names in UMCal, then here's how to add that information...

From the web client: Click on the Preference icon (fourth from the right in
that top row), then on the next page make sure the OU2 option is checked,
then click OK.

From the desktop client: Edit your preferences by choosing the Options item
from the Tools menu, go to the General section of the preferences, choose
Formatting, then choose Names from this section, then make sure the OU2
choice is checked and click OK.

From now on, when you see names of people invited to meeting, etc., you
should see some text after those names, like "Eric Celeste /UL Admin". All
Libraries staff should have "UL" in that text, and the departments should
roughly correspond to where folks work. Checking the OU2 box was recommended
at our Libraries UMCal training last Fall, so I would suggest that everyone
who has not made this adjustment to their UMCal configuration go ahead and
do this right away.